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  • From: Joan Vibert <joan@windwalkerfarm.com>
  • To: Healthy soil and sustainable growing <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] [RE] Regenerative Organic Farming: A Solution to Global Warming
  • Date: Sat, 02 Jan 2010 12:07:23 -0600

Title: Re: [Livingontheland] [RE] Regenerative Organic Farming: A Solution to Global Warming
Paul – we derive encouragement from this list oftentimes – it feels good to know that there are other in our age group (60’s and up) who aren’t whiling away the rest of their lives in Florida or Arizona playing shuffleboard (do they still play that – don’t know) but instead continue to improve their plot of land and feed others when possible.  I actually have a very good feeling about the next few years as reality gets shaken around and tumbled out for folks to face.  A friend of ours just posted a new year’s wish - “Hope and a future that matters” and I feel that that is what we all are doing – a future that matters.  It feels good.  Its so cold here there is no thought to the outside – other than Jim keeping the chicken water from freezing – the heater, of course, just broke.

Happy new year -

Joan


> From: Tradingpost <tradingpost@lobo.net>
> Reply-To: Healthy soil and sustainable growing
> <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
> Date: Sat, 02 Jan 2010 10:21:16 -0700
> To: <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
> Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] [RE] Regenerative Organic Farming: A Solution
> to Global Warming
>
>
> Glad to hear all that, Ed. Maybe we can compare notes on greenhouse building.
> I'm not the carpenter but my construction holds in high wind. This winter has
> been a little harder for us, esp for Barb, and I admit I'm not immune to
> getting discouraged. Some mornings the wind is still so I can get out while
> it's cold and work on garden cleanup. To see so much concern from others about
> the things that matter helps more than anyone knows.
>
> paul tradingpost@lobo.net
> --------
> I also look to these guys now and then for encouragement:
>
>    „We need to launch an Organic Green Revolution that fundamentally changes
> the way we grow our food to maximize yield while mitigating climate change,
> restoring clean water, building soils, and protecting agricultural production
> during times of drought.‰
> ~ Tim LaSalle, Rodale Institute CEO
> Ripe for Revolution event, New York City
>
>    "Many types of jobs will cease to exist: public relations executive,
> marketing directors, et cetera. I think work will be very hands-on, and a lot
> of it will revolve around food production."
>     -- James Howard Kunstler, 2003
>
>    "And if we do act, in however small a way, we don‚t have to wait for some
> grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to
> live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad
> around us, is itself a marvelous victory."
> ˜ Howard Zinn
>
>    "I have done without electricity, and tend the fireplace and stove myself.
> Evenings, I light the old lamps. There is no running water, and I pump the
> water from the well. I chop the wood and cook the food. These simple acts make
> man simple; and how difficult it is to be simple! . . . Silence surrounds me,
> almost audibly, and I live "in modest harmony with nature". Thoughts rise to
> the surface which reach back into the centuries, and accordingly anticipate a
> remote future. Here the torment of creation is lessened; creativity and play
> are close together."
>  - Carl Jung, "Memories, Dreams, and Reflections"
>
>
> paul tradingpost@lobo.net
>
> *********** REPLY SEPARATOR  ***********
>
> On 1/2/2010 at 2:10 AM henry walden wrote:
>
>> Paul, Good to here from ya, things up this way are fine. I'm putting
>> together a real nice greenhouse fit for royalty, and enlarging my compost
>> bin with a more permanent structure. Doro's been studying Eliot Coleman
>> and how ta go a hoophousin, etc. We got some cold frame experimentes going
>> and if I get real crazy I might get to adding an additional 1000 sq. ft.
>> of growing space. I been spending alot of time with your list,
>> particularly interesting thread on sequestration. The whole "to meat or
>> not" thread got a little iffy, the message was clear from start '- less
>> meat less impact-' otherwise a moral issue that one must answer for
>> oneself. The Rodale study was super exciting, it is becoming clearer and
>> clearer that proper soil building and carbon sequestration will play a
>> huge part in removing CO2. from the atmosphere (and to boot we can feed
>> the world and put the farmers back to work). I also ordered the book from
>> Harry MacCormack"'The Transition Document'. Inspiring approac!
>> h to soil building/maintanence. Alot going on, just listening to the
>> little voice in my head telling me to stay ahead of the curve and out of
>> the fray. I think it was that same little voice that led me to sit down
>> with you on a fine friday afternoon and chat last summer.Say hi to Barb.
>>
>> Ed
>>
>>
>>
>> ---------[ Received Mail Content ]----------
>> Subject : Re: [Livingontheland] [RE] Regenerative Organic Farming: A
>> Solution to Global Warming
>> Date : Wed, 30 Dec 2009 09:43:36 -0700
>>> From : "Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>
>> To : livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
>>
>>
>> Well hey! What's going on up in Pecos? Snowed in? I've been able to get
>> out and do catch up chores in the garden until now. Snow last nite, but
>> still mornings I can go out and clear weeds, do greenhouse repair, etc.
>> Haven't talked in a blue moon.
>>
>> BTW New Year's eve will be a blue moon. Everybody know what that is?
>>
>> paul tradingpost@lobo.net
>>
>>
>
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